George Anders

George Anders is the author of four business books, including “The Rare Find,” a management/leadership book that spells out a new framework for finding talent. He also is a contributing writer at Forbes, where he has written cover stories about game-changing organizations such as Amazon, LinkedIn and Sequoia Capital. In 1997 he shared in the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, while working as a feature writer for The Wall Street Journal. He is based in northern California.

The use of social media for recruitment is now the norm for businesses, and most organizations report using Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for this purpose. However, it is clear that many companies are not using social recruiting effectively. ...

How do organizations like Facebook, Google, and the U.S. Army identify the hidden pool of A-players their competitors don't know about? George Anders shares news from the front lines in the war for talent.